To Elaine: Our ancestors are just full of little surprises--and big ones, too! This is a curiosity and I do believe it spells much more research! The researcher, Jan Pilat, has finally found my Gt gf and Gt gm's marriage in Bohemia--supposedly Josef Holub and Barbora Wostoupal? ..no, no, it's Josef Zakostelna and Barbora Wostoupal! A vulgo? And then to help me along, I found Josef, Barbora and baby, Josef on the same ship Leontine NY 31 Aug 1857, as her brother Josef Wostoupal, wife Anna and dau Petronila. So brother and sister did emigrate together with their respective families! I found Josef Wostoupal in the 1860 census Kewaunee, WI so my next step is to find the 1860 census and search for one Josef Zakostelna. Somewhere between WI and ILL he changed to Holub betw 1857 and 1863. And just to make it a little bit more interesting, it appears that his father's name is Jan Budil, not Zakostelna or Holub. The researcher will be finding the changes--I hope. I need to acquire the information from his deed on the property at 126 Taylor as to which name he used then. By 1863 he was Josef Holub at the baptisms in St Wenceslaus. And now there is another Josef--the emigrant baby--what happened to him? To whom does one write to purchase the info on the property? The Chicago sands are shifting and still multiplying! As ever, Joan Smart Peterson

Joan - have you considered that there may be two distinct people. Josef Holub and Josef Zakostelna? Barbora Wostoupal may have married both of them - one died young (from any number of causes). Which name did he travel under? Which name did the children use? Were they born in the US or Bohemia? You may already have thought of this possibility -- and to go further, Jan Budil may have been his step-father. An interesting story, to say the least. Good luck unraveling the mystery. Susan